Utah Admin. Code R512-32-2 - Definitions
(1) "AIDS" means acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome.
(2) "Child and Family
Services" means the Division of Child and Family Services.
(3) "Children at risk" means an infant or
child born to parents engaging in or who have a history of engaging in high
risk behaviors, or a child or youth who has been sexually abused by a person
who engages in or has a history of engaging in high risk behaviors.
(4) "Communicable Disease" means any
infectious condition reportable to the DOH, pursuant to Section
26-6-3. These diseases are listed
in Rule R386-702. In addition, HIV seropositivity will be considered a
communicable disease. Non-reportable minor illnesses such as strep, flu, and
colds are excluded from this definition.
(5) "Contact" means an individual who has
been exposed to a communicable disease through a known mode of
transmission.
(6) "Controlled"
means a classification of information under GRAMA, Section
63G-2-304.
(7) "GRAMA" means the Government Records and
Management Act, Chapter 63G-2.
(8)
"High risk behaviors" means behaviors that include injectable drug use, sharing
intravenous needles and syringes, multiple sex partners, unprotected sex that
increase the risks of contracting Hepatitis B, AIDS, HIV disease, and sexually
transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, granuloma
inguinale, chlamydial infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and
lymphogranuloma venereum.
(9) "HIV
screening" means a laboratory test, or Elisa Test, to detect evidence of
infection with the HIV; the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency
syndrome.
(10) "HIV seropositivity"
means the presence in an individual, as detected by confirmatory laboratory
testing, or Western Blot Test, of an antibody or antigen to the HIV.
(11) "Primary care medical provider" means a
person authorized and licensed to supply the daily needs of children in the
custody of Child and Family Services.
(12) "Reasonable belief" means information
received that may indicate the child or the child's parent may be at risk from
engaging in or having a history of engaging in high risk behaviors as defined
in Subsection R512-32-2(8), a
child who may be at risk as defined in Subsection
R512-32-2(3),
or medical information received by the caseworker, foster parent, or
provider.
(13) "DHS" means the Utah
Department of Human Services.
(14)
"DOH" means the Utah Department of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology or Bureau of
Communicable Disease Control.
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